Types of paragraph ECI

ENGLISH COMPOSITION i

Types of PARAGRAPHS

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The type of paragraph you write will depend on several factors:

THERE ARE 4 MAIN TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS

The kind of writing you are producing. For example, paragraphs in a report tend to have a different purpose to paragraphs in an essay.The position of the paragraph in a longer piece of writing. A body paragraph in an essay has a different purpose to an introduction or conclusion. The logical order of the ideas and information in your writing. You may be presenting an argument, organizing facts, comparing ideas, defining a key concept, explaining the steps in a process, giving an example or recounting a series of events.

Descriptive

Narrative

Expository

Persuasive

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Illustration paragraph

Use this paragraph structure when you need to clarify a particular idea by offering specific examples and showing how they relate to your main point.

In an illustration paragraph, specific examples are used to clarify and support a general statement.

The examples should be put in order of importance and separated by a transitional expression.

How to plan a diet.

Best job experience.

Sport topics

Suggested topics

Worse job experience.

Routines

DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

A descriptive paragraph is a focused and detail-rich account of a specific topic.

To write a descriptive paragraph, you must study your topic closely, make a list of the details you observe, and organize those details into a logical structure.

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DEscribe how it looked.

Examining and Exploring Your Topic

DESCRIBE HOW IT felt

SENSORY DETAILS

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Spend time closely examining the subject of your paragraph. Study it from every possible angle, beginning with the five senses: what does the object look, sound, smell, taste, and feel like? What are your own memories of or associations with the object?

EsDESCRIBE HOW IT TASTED

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DESCRIBE HOW IT sounded

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DESCRIBE HOW IT

Organizing Your Information

Showing, Not Telling

A topic sentence that identifies the topic and briefly explains its significance.Supporting sentences that describe the topic in specific, vivid ways, using the details you've listed during brainstorming. A concluding sentence that circles back to the topic's significance.

Arrange the details in an order that makes sense for your topic. (You could easily describe a room from back to front, but that same structure would be a confusing way to describe a tree.)

A topic sentence that reads, "I am describing my pen because I love to write" is obvious "telling“ AND NOT CONVINCING. Avoid "tell" statements by keeping your list of details handy at all times.

"My ballpoint pen is my secret writing partner: The baby-soft tip glides effortlessly across the page, somehow seeming to pull my thoughts down from my brain and out through my fingertips."

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Choose a topic you like

illustration

descriptive

1. Write an illustrative paragraph.2. Write a descriptive paragraph.

Write the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Use examples, details, transitional words, and be consistent with person, number, and tense.

Thank you!